2024 · documentary
Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare
Directed by Lyttanya Shannon1h 22m2024
Kirat falls for a man she meets online, only to get swept up in a virtual relationship that upends her life for years. Her online courtship takes an unsettling turn when she learns that her romantic interest harbours a dark secret and sinister motives, leading to a harrowing ordeal, in this shocking documentary.
Our read: Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare (2024) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
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